What Movies to Watch Right Now

Brothers of the Black List tells the story behind the longest litigated civil rights case in American history. It all began in September 1992, when an elderly woman in Oneonta, New York reported that she had been attacked in an attempted rape by a young black male who cut his hand during the altercation. This led to a college administrator at nearby SUNY Oneonta giving the police a list of the names and residences of the 125 black men who attended the school. Police used this list to track down every black male in town, questioning them and demanding to see their hands.

THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing America - aging, war, poverty, prisons - through the work and lives of nurses. It is an examination of real people that will change how we think about nurses and how we wrestle with the challenges of healing America. THE AMERICAN NURSE is an important contribution to America's ongoing conversation about what it means to care. The film follows the paths of five nurses in various practice specialties including Jason Short as he drives up a rugged creek to reach a home-bound cancer patient in Appalachia. Tonia Faust, who runs a prison hospice program where inmates serving life sentences care for their fellow inmates as they're dying. Naomi Cross, as she coaches an ovarian cancer survivor through the Caesarean delivery of her son. Sister Stephen, a nun who runs a nursing home filled with goats, sheep, llamas and chickens, where the entire nursing staff comes together to sing for a dying resident. And Brian McMillion, an Army veteran and former medic, rehabilitating wounded soldiers returning from war.

A Cincinnati public school fights to break the cycle of poverty in its Urban Appalachian neighborhood, where senior Raven Gribbins aims to become the first in her troubled family to graduate and go to college. When Principal Craig Hockenberry's job is threatened, it becomes clear it's a make-or-break year for both of them.

With the rapid emergence of digital devices, an unstoppable, invisible force is changing human lives in ways from the microscopic to the gargantuan: Big Data, a word that was barely used a few years ago but now governs the day for many of us from the moment we awaken to the extinguishing of the final late-evening light bulb. This massive gathering and analyzing of data in real time is allowing us to not only address some of humanity biggest challenges but is also helping create a new kind of planetary nervous system. Yet as Edward Snowden and the release of the Prism documents have shown, the accessibility of all these data comes at a steep price. The Human Face of Big Data captures the promise and peril of this extraordinary knowledge revolution.

Daughters of Dolma takes you on a riveting journey revealing a distinctively female experience of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. This feature-length documentary brings to the screen not just Buddhist spirituality, but also the fun and unexpected eccentricities of living an ancient form of monastic life in a crazy, modern world.

"At times the news is more dramatic than the movie." This is the theme and intent of Disorder. The movie shows about twenty different actual events without intervention, exposing absurdity and outrage. A madman dancing in the middle of the road without his shirt, pigs blocking people on the roadside, citizens hanging their laundry on city electricity wires, laborers attempting to continue construction even after finding cultural assets in the grounds, policemen beating people and locking them up in squad cars in broad daylight. There is no order that matters. As the title says it, it's complete chaos and disorder.

In the so-called global age, a man is caught in the trap of time that he has set for himself and got stuck in it together with his freedom. Experimental documentary about time that explores its physical quantity as well as its crucial impact on our actions, behaviour, perception, social rituals and out outlook on the world.

As South Africa celebrates its 20Th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it's hard to believe that the 'Mandela Miracle' nearly didn't happen. In an orgy of countrywide violence, some were intent on derailing the first free elections. Now for the first time, those responsible for countless deaths and widespread mayhem explain how they nearly brought South Africa to its knees. 1994 is a chilling look at what these hard men did to thwart democracy and how they have made an uneasy peace with the 'Rainbow Nation' in their own different ways.

Evidence of Harm follows the lives of three health advocates as they struggle to inform the federal government and public that large amounts of toxic mercury vapors are released from "silver" amalgam dental fillings during routine dental procedures. The film presents a haunting portrait of a dental industry all too willing to turn a blind eye to science while placing profits and politics ahead of dental patient's health.

We Know Not What We Do is an inspirational call for a moral and spiritual awakening to save our planet, a testimonial in the evangelical context, a creative concoction urging human beings to band together and recognize our connectivity to nature, and, thus, save ourselves.

With France's liberalizing many of his public sectors at the beginning of the 21st Century, such as Justice and Security, the penitentiary system is now fully controlled by multinational companies, which show a lot of ingenuity in cutting corners and profitability improvement. One of their solutions to enable the permanent closure of the penitentiary centers, which are too costly in maintenance, has been to encourage people to become jailers « at home » by turning one room in their home into a prison cell in return for a stipend. At the center of the experiment is Anton Koslowski, a young father hoping to save his crumbling marriage with a stable income, who takes on a prisoner in his own home. The accommodation brings Koslowski to face his own civility, fears and ambitions, which in hand reflects upon the future of a society obsessed by competitiveness and utilitarianism to the detriment of the human being.

Quirky and inspirational yet still down-to-earth, EDIBLE CITY follows an array of eccentric and extraordinary characters aiming to create self-sustaining local food systems in America's cities. Exploring the Good Food Movement as it takes root in the San Francisco Bay Area and spreads across the nation and around the world, EDIBLE CITY sheds light on promising solutions to monumental problems.